Health Equity
The Health Equity Area of Excellence (AoE) provides leadership in the creation of a community of scholars within the Faculty of Nursing that foster discourse and inquiry to examine issues related to social determinants of health as conditions for social advantage/ disadvantage and systematic disparities in health.
Items in this Collection
- 3Narrative systhesis
- 2Immigrant women
- 1Canada
- 1Grey literature
- 1Knowledge synthesis
- 1Maternity services
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2012-06-17
Morgan, M., Dassanayake, J., Kocay, D., Chiu, Y., Higginbottom, GMA, Alexandre, M., Forgeron, J., Eyford, H.
Difficulties can exist for immigrant women when accessing and navigating health and maternity care services. Our research question is what are the experiences of immigrant women in Canada accessing maternity care services? Focus will be placed on, a) accessibility and acceptability as...
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Immigrant women's experiences of postpartum depression in Canada: A protocol for systematic review using a narrative synthesis.
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Forgeron, J., Alexandre, M., O’Mahony, J., Young, M., Chiu, Y., Morgan, M., Kocay, D., Higginbottom, G. M.
Background Literature documents that immigrant women in Canada have a higher prevalence of postpartum depression symptomatology than Canadian-born women. There exists a need to synthesize information on the contextual factors and social determinants of health that influence immigrant women’s...